Several hundred protesters have gathered in Tokyo to demand the cancellation of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s state funeral, accusing the slain premier of holding militarist views.
Abe, who was assassinated in July, was Japan’s longest-serving leader and one of its most divisive in the post-war period because of his revisionist view of wartime history, support for a stronger military, and what critics call an autocratic approach and cronyism.
